Summer Bummer

While it is still officially the "rainy" season here in Japan, it has gotten quite hot and humid that it already feels like summer. Having lived most of my life in the tropics, I don't have the right to complain about the heat in a more temperate country like Japan.However, during the height of summer, one yearns for the colder days of December and would constantly pray to keep the electric bills from skyrocketing because of the constant use of the airconditioner. Fireworks season would be upon us, wearing our summer yukatas and getas to watch "hanabi" among the throngs of overzealous citizens of Fukuoka.

P.S. I recently went back to Osaka and re-explored Kyoto. I got to see the Inari Shrine which figured prominently in a recent Hollywood film depicting the life of a japanese woman who entertained for a living...hint..hint.